Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-02-05
BY: TELEGRAPH

enroute home from a tour of b is Wabas
and Southwestern systems. In an interview
with Dispatch reporter MI. Gould SAID
IF the inter state commerce bill becomes
alaw it will not be worth anybodys wnlie
20 extend the railroads of to-day beyond
their crescent limits. 1t win put an end to
the enlargement of any roads in the south:
west
Judge Normile, of the criminal courts, OF
st. Louis, Mo-, issued q writ OF habeas cor
pus directing the warden of the penitentia-
~ at jefferson City, Missouri, to deliver in
to the charge of the officers of the court tn
oonvicts Whitrock and Haight, that the
may be brought to st. Louis to testify in
the case of the Adams Express company
charged with being accessory to the noted
Jim Cummings" train robbsry.
The police at Wilksbarre, Pa, have dis
covered regular organized band OF rob-
bers, the oldest of whom is IL and the
youngest years of age. Six of them were
arrested. About as many more made their
escape, but will soon be apprehended.
Their thieving operations were conducted
on large systematic scale. They have
robbed at least forty merchants, and their
pilferings foot up to ABOUT 5000 as far as
Il known. This is believed to be the young
est organization of outlaws in the world.
Many of the boys belong to respectable
families.
Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, has
received letter from Mrs. Van Zandt,
mother of Miss Nina Van Zandt, of Chicago,
asking him to act as council for the an
archists before the supreme court. He de-
Clined to lend his services in the matter.
Mrs. van Zandt has started for New York
to make arrangements to take her daughter
to Paris next week. She also expects to con-
Ga - L,
and probably get him to issue an order re-
pealing the former one, which forbids
Knights of Labors to give aid financially in
defense of the doomed men.
John A. Laugbridge, an old citizen, of
Kansas City, is dead. He has been suffer
ing from the effects of drink, and his doc
tor prescribed choral and morphine. The
bottle was sent to him at his hotel instead
of being given to the nurse, and he swallow
ed the contents at once.
The funeral of General Charles p. Stone
was held at st. Leo's church, in New York.
Monsignor Ducey conducted high mass of
requiem, and accompaL led the remains to
the National cemetery at West Point.
DR.. G. D. Bradley, of Chicago, who two
years ago had a practice worth $4,000 per
year, has been sent to the insane asylum as
q wreck from cocaine.
The planters of Kinds, Amite, and Ran
kun counties, Mississippi, have felt COM
PEELED to give notice to emigration agents
70 stop enticing the negroes to the swamps
Of the YaZoo delta. From four hundred to
six hundred colored men daily pour into
Vicksburg. The emigration from Greene
county, Alabama, is the largest of all.
Thomas Dennis, Waterman IN the gov
erDment building at Chicago, is one of the
twenty armless veterans in the United States
whose pensions are likely to be incr eased to
800 per month. He was a gunner on the
sloop Prip ceton, and was disabled off Gill
raltar ia 1S47.
One of the crew of fishing schooner of
Boston escaped the jaws of shark by drop
ping his trawl of cod.
In the supreme court of Maryland suit
was docketed against s. Ruth q Sons, tin
can makers, by assembly ], ?4S of the Knights
of Labor, claiming $1,000 damages for vio-
lation of contract. The assembly claims
that the defendants contracted to pay the
union scale of prices from April /, 1886, for
one year, which they failed to observe, thus
throwing many men out of employment
and causing their support to be charge
upon the assembly. The suit is novel one.
In the secret session of the senate, Seua-
tor Ingalls, offered in the form of resolu-
ton letter to the president in reply to the
weeks ago, giving his reason for renominat-
ing j. @. Mathews to be recorder of deeds |
for this district. The letter went over under
objection and will come up at the next secret |
session. Its purpose is stated to be to cor
rect the impression which prevails to some |
extern that Mathews was rejected because of |
his color, and that the nomination was
do -,
Three shots i'll rapid succession were heard |
In the house of Penny Rod, in the south |
western part of the town of Rossville, Kan. |
Many ran to the house at once where, upon |
the floor, lay j. d. Maher dead from shot |
in his head from a revolver IN the hands of |
Penny Rod. Both had been drinking, and |
Nere in the company of each other all day. |
meditated, as Maher was asleep when shot, |
but had a revolver in his pocket. Maher
had married Rods sister, a half breed In
dian, several years ago, squandered her
money and left her about four years ago.
Mrs. Maher has been dead two years.
Maher has two children living. Maher was
q worthless fellow. Rod has a wife and
but expresses no remorse for having shot
Maher. Rod spends his time in playing q
eddie, but is fearful Of Judge Lynch, and
requested the officer to remain near him.
The inquest will be held when the coroner
arrives. The body is lying where it fell
when shot. Maher never spoke or knew
What hurt him. Three ladies were in the
house and saw the shooting.
It is officially stated that Canada, in re-
'ponse to an appeal 20 the mother country,
has just received assurance from the impe-
nal authorities that men-of-war will be
to the maritime provinces in the
he Canadian cruisers in the enforcement
of the fishery protective service. The
promise of the English government created
much satisfaction in official circles, and in
dicates that American vessels will be more
rigidly excluded from Canadian waters dur
ing the next season than in the past. A cabi-
net minister speaking on the subject ex-
pressed himself as follows: ST have come to
The conclusion that the American Legislators,
having gone 30 far, will never yield their
consent to the appointment of a commits
zion. The Gloucester fishermen will not
venture into our waters again in force. and